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Re: "Padded speednuts" for holding MG badge on trunk?

To: johnhunt@ece.ogi.edu
Subject: Re: "Padded speednuts" for holding MG badge on trunk?
From: David Littlefield <dmeadow@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:42:56 -0500

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:09:50 -0700 (PDT) John Hunt <johnhunt@ece.ogi.edu>
writes:
> 
> 
> I removed the MG badge from the trunk lid on my '68B to prepare
> for painting.  In the process several of the clips that held the
> badge got destroyed.  
> 
> The best that Moss offers for replacements is the ordinary
> sort of speednut that you buy at a hardware store.  The
> original clips are a speednut of sorts embedded in a plastic
> washer.  The plastic provides some sealing so water doesn't
> leak through the hole and also keeps the speednut from cutting
> into the paint.
> 
> Does anyone know of another source for "padded clips"? 
> 
> If not I suppose I could find some small rubber washers and
> use speednuts.
>

The A-Antics Tech Manual says to use small pieces plastic hose on the
badge prongs to hold them in place.  You'd have to find hose of the right
diameter, perhaps in a lab supply place.  I haven't tried it myself, but
it sounds good.

David Littlefield
Houston, TX
'62 MGA MkII
'51 MGTD
'88 Jaguar XJ-S

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